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Patti Smith is one of the Seven Wonders of the World. She’s a singer, a poet, a songwriter, a photographer, a filmmaker, a non-fiction writer. Her Just Kids and M. Train are two of the most exciting and engaging works of the last decade.

As you know, Bob Dylan won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2016, the first time the award has gone to a songwriter.

At Dylan’s reception, Patti Smith sang “A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fall,” written by Dylan in the summer of 1962. You can watch her sing the song on YouTube. Her version will engrave itself deeply into your consciousness.

This March CANADA READS – CBC will choose the literary work it thinks the whole country should read. The long list ranges from science fiction to non-fiction, from futuristic works to fables.

“What is the one book Canadians need now?”

No books of songs, it seems. If the Nobel Prize committee in Sweden can open new ground concerning what it conceives to be literature, maybe CANADA READS can too.

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@AndreSobolewski One can only claim "we had no choice" for so long. There has to be another way - and that is a solution for city planners, environmentalists, engineers to work on. But surely, after so many raw sewage dumps someone has to make put this on the agenda somewhere.

@AndreSobolewski To clarify Andre, the claim I made was that this dumping has happened before and in 2015 mayor Denis Coderre at the time said he "had no choice" - that the infrastructure just wasn't there. This happened again in Feb of this year - is now happening once again in Longueuil.